Renovating the built environment through design for adaptability and disassembly
Funds pilots that renovate existing buildings and infrastructure using design-for-adaptability-and-disassembly methods so components can be reused and repurposed later.
This Horizon Europe Innovation Action funds real-world renovation of existing buildings, common spaces and infrastructure using design-for-adaptability-and-disassembly methods, so components can later be dismantled and reused rather than demolished. Winning consortia must develop at least two such renovation processes and demonstrate them in at least two pilots across at least two Member States or…
The European Commission wants renovation processes, methods or techniques based on design for adaptability and disassembly — an approach that lets buildings, common spaces and infrastructure be modularly adapted, dismantled and repurposed rather than demolished. Proposals should develop at least two such processes and quantify their environmental, economic, social, cultural, financial and regulatory impacts against conventional renovation, using indicators from the EU's 'Level(s)' framework for sustainable buildings.
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